Nothing like a weekend on call to curdle the milk of human kindness.....

[osodecanela]

I clearly am capable of being cranky.

I'm generally a patient person, but I have hot buttons that get pushed more than I like. Here are a few phone call starters guarenteed to piss me off:

Any call 30 minutes after their MD's office has closed, asking for a drug refill.
Any call any time, complaining of a symptom that has gone on a week or more, hasn't changed or gotten worse, but somehow cannot wait until their MD's office opens the next morning.
Any call after hours asking for Viagra. (I don't care how hot the date is, being out of any ED med constitutes poor planning, NOT an emergency.
Any call asking me to second guess their own MD (& my call partner) ("He gave me 'X', but I'm not sure I want to take it. What do you think?" Hold on a moment, I don't need to be able to examine you or look at any tests like your provider just did. Just let me consult my crystal ball.
Calls at an un-godly hour of the morning asking for my permission to go to the ER. Do you honestly think the insurer checks to see if I told you to go to the ER?
Any call that begins, " I'm sure I have a bladder/sinus/name-the-bodypart-of-your-choice infection. I took the two days of antibiotics I had 'leftover' from my last infection. I need you to call in more."

Comments

[blktalon.livejournal.com]

Should have told him to call mexico for his ED drugs and have then airlift them in.

[barbarian-rat.livejournal.com]

Opps ... I did the last one, many, many years ago, when I was a young'in. Although I didn't wan a refill. I wanted to see a doc. The nurse on call at Kaiser said, take two aspirin and do not call in the morning.

I call my partner's doc, who saw me that day, and became my regular doc.

I never, ever thought of doing that again.

Me bad .... :(